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USS Harry Truman
(CVN-75)
USS Hary S. Truman is the
eighth ship in the NIMITZ class.
General Characteristics:
Keel Laid: Nov. 29, 1993
Launched: Sept. 13, 1996
Commissioned: July 25, 1998
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
Co., Newport News, Va.
Propulsion System: two nuclear
reactors
Main Engines: four
Propellers: four
Aircraft elevators: four
Catapults: four
Arresting gear cables: four
Length, overall: 1,092 feet
(332.85 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 257 feet
(78.34 meters)
Area of flight deck: about
4,5 acres
Beam: 134 feet (40.84 meters)
Draft: 38,4 feet (11.7 meters)
Displacement: approx. 100,000
tons full load
Speed: 35 knots
Cost: about $3.5 billion
Planes: approx. 85
Crew: Ship: approx. 3,200
Air Wing: 2,480
Armament: four Mk 29 NATO
Sea Sparrow launchers, four 20mm Phalanx CIWS Mk 15
Homeport: Norfolk, Va.
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